The Furnace Grill and Crab House

The food was delicious, fresh and good quality. The location is very convenient, not too far from the Cunningham Fall State Park, MD and next to the main road It is a good choice for anyone wants to visit and enjoy your day at the park. This place has a spacious dining room that is simply furnished with coastal or bungalow style room, also there is lot of parking spot outside with outdoor patio seating is available. p.s. When I was there, I was waiting for food a little long time, maybe it was because they just opened, anyway it is not a big deal for me, and the waitress service was fine.

We loved this place! I mean it’s nothing super fancy or anything but the atmosphere and food is exactly what you’d expect. If you’re familiar with this area I’d call it a redneck Dutches. Like how your favorite aunt in Thurmont, MD, might cook fine Dutches dishes. That’s not a slam. It’s great good food and great drinks. We will 100% return. My only suggestion is to just go ahead and order the all you can eat hard shell crabs cause EVERYONE else will be and if you order anything else it might take a little time to get ready. Worth the wait though.

We stopped by after visiting the National Shrine for lunch; I saw that this restaurant had great reviews and decided to stop by. It's definitely a hidden gem in this area. Came in on a busy day (unfortunately they were short staffed but we understood) but just waited patiently. We first ordered the Cream of Crab Soup (highly recommend getting it, had lumps of crab meat in it and seasoned perfectly). My family ordered the Assorted Seafood Platter, comes with Fried Fish, Fried Shrimp, Broiled Crab Cakes, Clam Strips and Fried Scallops(it literally can feed two people and they still had leftovers) and I ordered the Whiskey Salmon with Mixed Veggies and Sidewinder Fries. If you like a hole in wall, very unique decor and are in the Thurmont area in Maryland, I definitely recommend coming here

Surprised at how good the food was and the portions! Friendly staff. 1st time customer... will be back to try the crabs with some family and friends. The pretzel and crab appetizer was delicious! I had crab cakes (lots of crab) and my BIL had the Chesapeake burger... he said his was really good as well.

Terrible! Seriously, don't waste your hard earned money. Our check was about 167.00 for 4 people. ALL the seafood, and I mean ALL the seafood, was extremely salty. Someone please remove the salt from the kitchen. The jumbo lump crab platter / dinner was horrible and I am embarrassed to say how much I paid so just know it was WAY TOO MUCH!!!!!! There was nothing jumbo about the crab meat as it seemed shredded. One crab cake was fried, too long I might add, and the other was broiled but not long enough, and just about raw. There was no consistency to hold it together. The steak was salty and didn't look a bit appetizing when delivered to the table. Definitely not worth the money. The cream of crab soup was way too salty and a bit on the watery side. Good cream of crab is on t